Album.



No. 880,311. PATENTED FEB. 25,.1908.

R. KRUMMIN G.

ALBUM.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 14. 1906.

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ALBUM.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1908.

Application filed February 14. 1906- Serial No. 300.982-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REINHOLD KRUMMING, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have invented an Album, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to books having blank leaves for the attachment thereto of clippings, cards, photographs, pictures and the like, either by gumming or by means of oblique cuts in which the corners of cards are engaged, or by means of pockets into which they are slid, or in any other fashion.

My improvements are more particularly designed for use with the style known as the souvenir post-card album in which postal cards are attached to both sides of the leaves thereof. Books of this sort when filled or artly filled, are in a condition in which the eaves are inclined to spring apart resiliently from one another, and when opened will not lie flat unless provided with special devices for that purpose. One reason for this is the fact that the attachment-leaves are necessarily thick and do not bend easily.

The object of my invention is to construct the album or scrap-book in such manner that the leaves will always lie flat. To this end I provide a regular hinge-attachment for the leaves, and I further provide means for quickly and cheaply assembling a quantity of leaves into a book.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end view of a book provided with my improvements, in open position, Fig. 2 is an end view of one signature of the leaves thereof, Fig. 3 is a similar view of a filling-piece, Fig. 4 is a view on a magnified scale of a series of signatures and filling-pieces assembled together, Figs. 5 and 6 are alternative forms of a base or guard and filling-piece respectively.

In these drawings every reference letter refers always to the same part.

In Fig. 1, a a are the covers of the book.

and b the back uniting them.

0 is the usual back-strip which forms a means of attachment for the leaves.

d indicates the leaf-bases or guards and c filling-pieces which alternate therewith, the purpose of said filling-pieces being, as is well understood, to spread the back by an amount equal to the thickness of the papers or cards spread upon the leaves of the book when filled. The leaves f are attached in signatures or bunches g to their bases 61 by means of hinges consisting of threads or staples h.

Each signature or bunch of leaves consists of a number of sheets or folios once folded (two are' shown in the drawing). Every leaf-guard d consists of the same number of paper-strips 'i, likewise once folded, so that each guard shall be of the same thickness as the signature to which it is attached. This is not absolutely necessary to my invention, but is preferable.

The filling-pieces e may be made up in any Way, herein shown as consisting of a pair of pasteboard bars j covered with a strip of paper is, the ends of which extend beyond the back-edge of the bars y' and are folded to form flaps Z. The purpose of these fla s is to form means of attachment for the lbafguards d, the outer strips i thereof being .glued to said fia s in the manner clearly shown in Fig. 4. It is not essential, however, to my invention that such flaps be formed upon the filling-pieces 6. Instead, the outer strips i may be provided with flaps Z, this form of strips being designated Q) in Fig. 5. In this case the paper-cover 7c may be omitted from the filling-pieces and the latter formed of paper in'any desired'thickness, as shown at c, Fig. 6.

In making up books on this plan, the process of manufacture is as follows: A number of leaf-elements consisting of leaves and guards are first made up and attached together, and are thereafter put under a knife and all trimmed to an equal width, or they may be manufactured continuously and all trimmed to the same width. Likewise the filling-pieces Z are made up separately. The filling-pieces and leaf-elements are then connected together alternately and continuously to form a pile of indefinite thickness suited to a number of books, from which pile are detached from time to time the various thicknesses required to make up the books for which the manufacturer has orders on hand. It is to be particularly noted that this method of construction not only has superior advantages in the respects first mentioned, but is actually cheaper than the present method of making up such books.

An important point to observe is the manner in which the trimming takes place. Such books cannot be trimmed after being made up on account of their uneven thickness. In my book the leaf-elements can be trimmed after being made up because the guards are of the same thickness as the leaves, and the filling-pieces can also be trimmed to the same length. In attaching the filling-pieces to the leaf-elements, their ends are all abutted against a flat object and require no further trimming.

It is to be understood that in attaching a quantity of leaf-elements to the strip 0, the means used is some adhesive such as glue, which causes the back-edges of the fillingpieces and leaf-guards to adhere directly to the strip.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In an album, scrap-book or the like, a leaf-element comprising one or more sheets folded in the center to form double the number of leaves, the same number of paper strips of substantially equal thickness, likewise once folded along the center, and a hinge-joint between the folds of said leaves and said strips.

2. In an a bum, scrap-book or the like, an element comprising a plurality of sheets each folded once along the center to form double the number of leaves, said leaf-sheets being laid together one inside the other, the same number of strips of paper of-substantiallyequal thickness likewise folded once along the center and laid one inside the other, and a hinge-joint uniting said sheets with said strips along the folds thereof.

3. In an album, scrap-book or the like, a filling-piece consisting of a block comprising the body of the filling-piece, and a strip of paper covering the front edge and sides of said block and having its side edges extending beyond the sides of said block to form flaps hinged to the side edges of the block which constitute a means of attachment for the leaves.

4. In an album, scrap-book or the like, the combination of a plurality of leaf-elements each consisting of one or more paper sheets folded along the center to form double the number of leaves and a guard comprisin an equal number of paper strips likewise folded along the center and united to said sheets by a hinge passing through said folds of said leaves and strips, and a plurality of fillingpieces alternating with said leaf-elements and each consisting of a block forming the body of the filling-piece and a paper flap projecting from and hinged to each of the back edges of said block, said paper flaps of the filling-pieces being united to the strips of the leaf-elements.

5. An album, scrap-book or the like comprising, in combination with suitable back and covers, a back-strip, a plurality of fillingpieces separately secured at their back-edges to said back-strip, a plurality of leaf-guards alternating with said filling-pieces and likewise secured by their back-edges to said back-strip and having their front edges rojecting beyond said filling-pieces, said afpie'ces and filling-pieces being disconnected from each other at the sides whereby the same 0 en apart when the book is opened, and a p urality of signatures of leaves, each signature of leaves being secured in a hinged manner to one of the leaf guards, whereby when the book is opened each signature of leaves is adlpted to lie flat separately and without inte erence from said fillin 6. An album, scrap-book or the li e, comprising covers, a back strip, a plurality of filling-pieces secured by an adhesive to said back strip, and a plurality of leaf-elements united by an adhesive to said fillingieces and alternating therewith; each of said lingpieces having paper flaps proceeding from its back edges, and each of said leaf-elements comprising a plurality of leaves and a leafguard hinged thereto, the leaf-guards having flaps united to the respective flaps of said filling-pieces.

7. An album, scrap-book or the like, comprising covers, a back strip, a plurality of filling-pieces secured by an adhesive to said back strip, and a plurality of leaf-elements -pieces.

united by an adhesive to said filling-pieces and alternating therewith; each of said filling-pieces having a paper flap proceeding from .and hinged to its rear edges and each of said leaf-elements comprising a signature of leaves, a leafuard of equal thickness and having paper aps united to said firstnamed flaps, and a hinge uniting said signature of leaves to said leaf-guard.

8. The process of making albums, scrapbooks and the like consisting in uniting together by a hinge a plurality of once-folded sheets forming leaves to an equal number of once-folded strips forming guards, the whole forming a leaf-element, placing a pluralit of such leaf-elements in a pile, and simul taneously trimming the edges of said leaves and guards by passing a cuttin -instrument transversely across the edges of said pile.

9. The rocess of manufacturing albums, scrap-boo s and the like consisting in uniting a number of sets of once-folded sheets forming leaves respectively to a number of sets of once-folded strips forming guards by means of hinges across the folds thereof, the whole forming a leaf-element, trimming a plurality of said leaf-elements to even size, forming a plurality of filling-pieces of length equal to said leaf-elements, uniting said leaf-elements to said filling-pieces by paper flaps, pasting said leaf-elements and said filling-pieces alternately together, and pasting the whole to a back-strip forming thereby a book.

10. The process of manufacturing albums, scrap-books and the like consisting in forming a' plurality of leaf-elements by securing one or more once-folded leaf-sheets to one thereafter detaching from said pile portions or more once-folded guard-strips by means thereof consisting of any predetermined of a hinge passing through the folds of the number of leaves and filling-p1eces to form respective sheets and strips, forming a plubooks of definite thickness.

{5 rality of filling-pieces consisting of body- In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set 15 blocks having paper fla s on their backmy hand this 12th day of February, 1906. edges, securing said leaf-e ements alternately REINHOLD KRUMMING.

strips to said flaps, and continuing until a GEORGE W. Courts,

to said filling-pieces by pasting said guard- In presence of 10 pile of indefinite thickness is formed, and FLORENCE E. HILL. 

